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— English words —

• fail v. (Intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
• fail v. (Transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is…
• fail v. (Transitive) To neglect.
• fail v. (Intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
• fail v. (Transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one’s expectations.
• fail v. (Transitive, intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
• fail v. (Transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
• fail v. (Transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.
• fail v. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
• fail v. (Archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
• fail v. (Archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
• fail v. (Archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
• fail v. (Obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
• fail v. (Obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
• fail v. To become unable to meet one’s engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one’s debts or discharge…
• fail n. (Uncountable, slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
• fail n. (Slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful).
• fail n. (Slang, US) A failure (something incapable of success).
• fail n. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
• fail n. A failing grade in an academic examination.
• fail adj. (Slang, US) Unsuccessful; inadequate; unacceptable in some way.
• fail n. A piece of turf cut from grassland.
• Fail prop.n. A surname.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Indonesian
  • fail n. File…
  • fail n. File rack.
• Irish
  • fail n. Ring.
  • fail n. Bracelet.
  • fail n. Wreath.
  • fail n. Sty.
  • fáil n. Verbal noun of faigh.
  • fáil n. Possession.
  • fáil n. Receipt, attainment.
  • fáil n. Goal, target.
  • fáil n. Access.
  • fáil n. Availability.
  • fáil n. Vocative/genitive singular of fál.
• Luxembourgish
  • Fäil n. Arrow.
  • Fäil n. Dart.
• Malay
  • fail n. File (collection of papers).
  • fail n. Information or a document about someone, something etc.
  • fail n. (Computing) file (aggregation of data on a storage device).
  • fail v. File (commit papers).
  • fail v. File (to archive).
  • fail v. (Computing) file (store computer data).
  • fail v. (With untuk) file (make a formal request).
• Old irish
  • fail v. Alternative form of fil.
• Scottish gaelic
  • fàil n. Plural of fàl.
  • fàil n. Genitive singular of fàl.
• Turkish
  • fail n. (Grammar, archaic) subject.
  • fail n. Author.
  • fail n. Agent, doer.
  • fail n. (Law) actor, perpetrator.

— English words, defined in German —

• fail S. Ein Ausfall, ein Fehlschlag.
• fail V. Ausfallen, durchfallen, fehlschlagen, scheitern.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• fail w. Mislukken.
• fail w. Zakken.

— English words, defined in French —

• fail v. Échouer.
• fail v. Échouer.
• fail n. (Argot) Échec.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• fail v. Fracasar, fallar.
• fail v. Reprobar.

— In Dutch —

• fail n. (Informeel) opvallende mislukking.

175 English words from 52 English definitions

about absence academic Access achieve action activity actor affected Agent aggregation Alternative any archaic archive Arrow attaining attainment Author Availability away become being Bracelet cease collection come come␣short commit computer Computing condition correctly cut Dart data debts decay decline deficient degree desert deteriorate device die diminished direct direct␣object disappoint discharge document doer endeavour engagements err especially etc examination expectations failing failure fall fall␣away fall␣short fil file financial for form formal from genitive give goal grade grades Grammar grassland inadequate incapable Information in␣respect insufficient intransitive judgment lack Law lose machine make measure meet miss mistaken more neglect non Not note noun object obsolete of␣a of␣an one operate papers particular passing passing␣grade passing␣grades pay perish perpetrator person piece Plural Poor Possession pursuits quality rack Receipt receive request resources respect Ring short singular sink slang some someone something stated storage storage␣device store student Sty subject substandard success surname target termination The this to␣come total transaction Transitive turf unable unacceptable Uncountable unprovided unsuccessful up␣to Usage used Verbal Verbal␣noun vigour Vocative want wanting way weaker with word word␣is workmanship Wreath

1 English word from 10 foreign definitions

Argot

17 foreign words from 10 foreign definitions

Ausfall Ausfallen durchfallen Échec Échouer ein fallar Fehlschlag fehlschlagen Fracasar Informeel Mislukken mislukking opvallende Reprobar scheitern Zakken

96 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

fail'd faile Faile fails Fails failed failer failes Failes failin' Failla faille fail␣of Failor failers failest faileth failing Failing Faillas Failler failles Failors failson failure failable failance failback fail␣dyke fail␣fast failings Failings failover fail␣over failsafe fail-safe fail␣safe failsoft fail-soft failsons failures failances failbacks fail␣dykes failingly failovers failproof failsafed fail-safed failsafes fail-safes +45 words

53 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

defails defailed jeofails Lafaille unfailed defailing defailure epic␣fails male-fails unfailing dam␣failure defailance defailment male-failed nonfailing nonfailure unfailable unfailably antifailure defailances defailments female-fails foster␣fails male-failing nonfailures postfailure unfailingly female-failed heart-failure heart␣failure microfailure one␣fail␣swoop power␣failure female-failing ground␣failure heart-failures heart␣failures market␣failure power␣failures unfailingness ground␣failures market␣failures words␣fail␣someone government␣failure mean␣time␣to␣failure structural␣failure Wraxall␣and␣Failand government␣failures structural␣failures words␣failed␣someone words␣failing␣someone single␣point␣of␣failure single␣points␣of␣failure

15 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

defail no-fail unfail jeofail epic␣fail male-fail pass-fail Daily␣Fail Innisfail female-fail Fianna␣Fáil foster␣fail made␣of␣fail without␣fail too␣big␣to␣fail

2 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ail FAI

2 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

IAF LIA

3 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

-afil alif fila

44 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

Alfie alfil alfin alfiz alief alife aLife Alife ALife a-life A-life A-Life Aliff alifs Alofi calif Calif. cifal Faial fail'd faile Faile fails Fails Falin famil Fil-Am Filan filar Filla final Flaig flail Flaim flain flair flaki folia frail kalif Lafia Latif LIGAF pilaf

30 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

AFI AFL AIF ail Alf ALF 'alf Ali ali- FAI fal Fal FAL FIA fil FIL Fil- Fla FLA Fla. IAF IAL -ial IFA lai Lai LFA LIA lif LIF

43 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

bail Bail Cail Dail faal Fahl FaiF FAIF fain Fain fair fait Fait faix fall Fall farl fasl Faul FDIL foil FOIL Gail hail Hail jail kail Kail Lail mail nail Nail Oail pail rail sail SAIL tail Tail vail Vail wail zail

8 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

ail FAI fal Fal FAL fil FIL Fil-

4 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

Faial famil flail frail

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